Psychiatry
142 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
Nineteen days after being pulled from a burning car, a 34-year-old man cannot stop seeing the flames whenever he closes his eyes. He wakes several times a night…
Clinical rotations · common
A 20-year-old warehouse worker has spent five hours a day washing since he handled a leaking drum of solvent three months ago. He is certain he will poison his…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 29-year-old woman has had six months of abrupt attacks of pounding heartbeat, breathlessness and tingling fingers that peak within minutes. They have come on…
Clinical rotations · common
At a hospital grand round on mental health funding, a registrar is asked how much Australia spends on mental health. She finds several different figures in circ…
Clinical rotations · niche
A general practice in Perth is planning how to staff its mental health clinics and asks a medical student to summarise the most recent national data. The studen…
Clinical rotations · common
A 31-year-old primary school teacher has felt low, flat and tearful for seven weeks. She still gets to work every day but finds preparing lessons harder than us…
Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man with a three-month depressive episode tells his general practitioner, quietly and without being asked, that he has been thinking about ending…
Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl is brought by her mother, who says that for four months she has snapped at everyone, slipped from top of the class to failing, given up netba…
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A 32-year-old woman attends the child health clinic six weeks after an uncomplicated birth. For a month she has felt flat throughout the day, has taken no pleas…
Clinical rotations · common
A 61-year-old man is brought by his daughter seven months after his wife died. He has lost 9 kg, wakes at 3 am, and has not gone back to the bowls club or to hi…
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A 24-year-old woman is referred because of mood swings since her late teens. Twice in two years she has had six-day spells of sleeping three hours a night, talk…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 71-year-old man is three months into rehabilitation after a left middle cerebral artery infarct. He eats little and has lost 4 kg. He wakes at 4 am and cannot…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has recovered from his first episode of schizophrenia and has been well on aripiprazole for four months. He has moved back in with his parents…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is admitted with a first episode of psychosis after eight weeks of persecutory beliefs and voices. He has never taken an antipsychotic. His bo…
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A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by police after being found shouting at parked cars. He is guarded, gives his name and little else, and…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 25-year-old man has taken risperidone 4 mg at night for six months for schizophrenia, and his voices and persecutory beliefs have gone. His mother says he now…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 23-year-old apprentice has had persecutory beliefs and voices commenting on his actions continuously for three months. He has stopped attending work and rarel…
Clinical rotations · common
A 47-year-old woman, whose mother died six weeks ago, tells her general practitioner that she has three times seen and spoken with her mother in the family home…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old woman is admitted after three weeks of increasingly odd behaviour. Her mother says she had a flu-like illness a month ago, then became convinced h…
Clinical rotations · niche
A 26-year-old accountant is brought to his general practitioner by his sister. For four months he has believed that the presenter of the evening news bulletin a…
Clinical rotations · common